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""cles whatsoever not allowed by the Rules of the Prison, should tioned in this "be liable to be punished as therein-after mentioned:" And Act. 'whereas it is expedient to make the said Enactment applicable to all the Prisons and Places of Confinement mentioned in this 'Act: Be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act so much of the said Act for establishing a Prison at Pentonville as is above set forth and referred to shall be and the same is extended to the Prisons of Parkhurst, Millbank, and to all the said Places for the Confinement of Male Offenders in England under Sentence or Order of Transportation, and to the Officers and Servants employed therein; and all the Powers given thereby to the Commissioners of Pentonville in that Behalf shall be exercised by the Directors appointed under this Act in the said Prisons of Pentonville, Millbank, and Parkhurst, and the said Places for the Confinement of Offenders under Sentence or Order of Transportation.

V. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament.

CA P. XL.

An Act to regulate the Disposition of the Naval Prize
Balance.
[29th July 1850.]
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Tenth Year of the
Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, inti-

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tuled An Act for transferring the Management of Greenwich 10 G. 4. c. 26. Out-Pensions and certain Duties in Matters of Prize to the Treasurer of the Navy, it is enacted, that all forfeited and unclaimed Shares and Balances of Prize Money, and a Percentage of Five Pounds in every One hundred Pounds out of the Proceeds of all Prizes, and out of all Grants to the Royal Navy and Marines, and out of all Bounty Monies, and out of all Seizures made under the Revenue, Colonial, Navigation, and Slave Abolition Laws, and out of all Droits of Admiralty, and out of all Monies arising from Derelicts, should continue to be paid and should be paid and payable to the Treasurer of His Majesty's Navy for the Time being, by such Persons, and at such Times, and subject to such Penalties for Default, Delay, or Refusal, as the same had theretofore been or were then paid or payable to the Treasurer of Greenwich Hospital or his Deputy, by virtue of any Act or Acts then in force relating to the said forfeited and unclaimed Shares and Per-centage; which several Payments and Deductions might be by the said Treasurer of the Navy applied, under the Authority and Direction of the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, in aid of the Sums granted for Greenwich Out-Pensions; and in the event of there remaining any Surplus thereof after defraying the Greenwich Out'Pensions, then the said Treasurer of the Navy should cause such Surplus to be from Time to Time invested (under the Authority and by the Direction of the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral) in some of the Public Government Stocks, Funds, or Securities, in the Name of the Treasurer of the Navy for the Time being, 13 & 14 VICT. ' and

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So much of
10 G. 4. c. 26.
as relates to
Payments and
Deductions, and

as provides for
Investment of
Surplus, &c.,
repealed.

Naval Prize
Cash Balance

may be carried

Fund.

and should receive and apply the Dividends arising therefrom in aid of the Greenwich Out-Pensions; and the said Stocks, Funds, and Securities might be from Time to Time by the said 'Treasurer of the Navy sold, under the like Authority and Direction, and the Produce thereof applied in further Aid of future Greenwich Out Pensions: And whereas the Payment of Green'wich Out-Pensions being otherwise fully provided for, it is expedient to alter the said Act: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act so much of the said Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth as enacts that the said several Payments and Deductions may be by the said Treasurer of the Navy applied, under the Authority and Direction of the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, in aid of the Sums granted for Greenwich OutPensions, and so much of the same Act as provides for the Investment of any Surplus thereof after defraying the Greenwich Out-Pensions, and the Application of the Dividends arising therefrom, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

II. And be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act so much of the said several Payments and Deductions which now form the Naval Prize Cash Balance, and also so much of to Consolidated such future Payments and Deductions as the Lord High Admiral or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral may at any Time and from Time to Time deem expedient, shall, by Her Majesty's Paymaster General, under the Authority and Direction of the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, be paid and transferred to the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Deficiency of

Naval Prize Cash

Balance to be made good out

of Consolidated

Fund.

Act may be amended, &c.

Letters Patent, dated 2d Oct.

11 Car. 1.

III. And be it enacted, That in case any Claims in respect of Prize or Bounty Money shall hereafter be made which the Naval Prize Cash Balance for the Time being shall not be sufficient to pay, in that Case, and whenever the same may so happen, there shall be paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland a sufficient Sum to meet and defray such Claims.

IV. And be it enacted, That this Act may be altered, amended, or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament.

CA P. XLI.

An Act to authorize the Division of the Parish of Man-
chester into several Parishes, and for the Application of
the Revenues of the Collegiate and Parish Church, and for
other Purposes.
[29th July 1850.]
HEREAS the Warden and Fellows of the College of Christ
in Manchester in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and
'their Predecessors, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of
England, bearing Date the Second Day of October in the

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Eleventh Year of the Reign of King Charles the First, were 'incorporated by the Name of the Warden and Fellows of the 'College of Christ in Manchester founded by King Charles, and 'the Bishop of Chester and his Successors were made Visitors of the said College: And whereas at the Time of the passing of 'the Act of Parliament next herein-after mentioned the said 'Warden and the Fellows of the said College (such Fellows 'being Four in Number) constituted, under the Provisions of the I said Letters Patent, the Chapter of the said College: And whereas by an Act passed in the Parliament held in the Third 3 & 4 Vict. and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 'for carrying into effect, with certain Modifications, the Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues, it was among other things enacted, that thenceforth 'all the Members of Chapter, except the Dean, in every Cathe'dral and Collegiate Church in England, should be styled Canons, and that the said Warden of the said Collegiate Church of 'Manchester should be styled Dean; and that in the said Collegiate Church of Manchester, as soon as the See of Manchester 'should have been founded, and every Person who should be a 'Member of the said Chapter at the passing of that Act should ' have ceased to be such Member, the Canonries should be in the 'direct Patronage of the Bishop of Manchester for the Time 'being, who might, upon the Vacancy of any Canonry, collate thereto a Spiritual Person, who should thereupon be entitled to 'Installation as a Canon of the same Church; and that such fixed ' annual Sum should be determined on to be paid, and should accordingly be paid, to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of England by the said Dean and Canons of the said Collegiate Church of Manchester, as after due Inquiry, and a Calculation of the then present average annual Revenues of the Chapter of such Church, should leave to the Dean thereof an average annual Income of Two thousand Pounds, and to the Canons thereof respectively the average annual Income of One thousand Pounds; and that the Monies and Revenues to be paid to the said Eccle'siastical Commissioners for England by and under the Authority of that Act, together with all Accumulations of Interest arising therefrom, should be from Time to Time carried over by the said Commissioners to a Common Fund, to be applied as therein

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in Parishes where such Assistance is most required: And Acts as to whereas an Act was passed in the Parliament held in the Sixth Ecclesiastical and Seventh Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King

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of the Established Church in England and Wales, with reference to Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues, so far as they relate to Episcopal Dioceses, Revenues, and Patronage; and another Act was passed in the Parliament held in the Fourth and Fifth Years

of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to explain 4 & 5 Vict. c.39. ' and amend Two several Acts relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England; and another Act was passed in the 'Parliament held in the Tenth and Eleventh Years of the Reign ' of Her present Majesty, "for establishing the Bishoprick of 10 & 11 Vict. Manchester, c. 108.

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• Manchester, and amending certain Acts relating to the Eccle'siastical Commissioners of England:" And whereas, under or by virtue of the said Four several Acts of Parliament, and the 'Powers thereby conferred, the Bishoprick of Manchester has been duly founded and endowed, and the said Collegiate Church has been duly made and is now the Cathedral Church of the said • Diocese of Manchester; and the Bishop of Manchester for the 'Time being has been duly constituted the Visitor of the said 'Cathedral; but Doubts have been entertained whether he has thereby become Visitor of the said College: And whereas the 'said Dean and Canons are seised of the Rectory of the Parish of Manchester aforesaid, and of certain Tithes, Glebe Lands, 'Hereditaments, and Tenements belonging thereto, which at present produce a considerable Revenue, and will probably produce hereafter a much larger yearly Income: And whereas the Queen's most Excellent Majesty is Patron of the said Deanery or Wardenship of the said College, and as such entitled 'to nominate the said Dean thereof: And whereas the said Bishop ' of Manchester is Ordinary of the said Parish of Manchester: And whereas the said Parish of Manchester is of very great Extent, and contains a very large Population: And whereas, in addition to the said Cathedral Church, many new Churches or Chapels have at various Times been erected within the said 'Parish of Manchester, and other Churches or Chapels are now being or may hereafter be erected in the same Parish, and certain Districts of the said Parish have been assigned to certain of 'such Churches or Chapels, and certain of such Churches or Chapels have been respectively endowed to a small Extent, but wholly insufficient for properly providing for the Cure of Souls in such Districts: And whereas, under or by virtue of "The • Manchester and Leeds Railway Act, 1836," "The Manchester ' and Leeds Railway Act, 1837," "The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act, 1839," "The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act, • 1841," "The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act, 1844," "The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act (No. 1.), 1845," "The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act (No. 2.), 1845," "The Manchester ' and Leeds Railway Act, 1846," and an Act passed in the Parlia 'ment held in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, "for the Improvement of the Town of "Manchester," or some of such Acts, certain Land known by the Name of "Walker's Croft," and formerly belonging to the said Dean and Canons and the Churchwardens for the Time being ' of the said Parish of Manchester, and which for a long Time was ' used as a Parish Burial Ground, has been sold to the Manchester ' and Leeds Railway Company, now styled the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, for Sums of Money amounting in the whole to Twelve thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine Pounds One Shilling and Sixpence, or thereabouts, which said Sum is, under the Provisions of the said several Railway Acts or some of them, and of the said Act for the Improvement of the Town of Manchester, to be laid out and invested, as therein mentioned, in the Purchase of other Lands, to be used as and for the Purposes of a Parish Burial Ground; and it is expedient that further Provision should be made with reference to the

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Application of such Sums of Money: And whereas by an Act 'passed in the Parliament held in the Sixth and Seventh Years of

the Reign of Queen Victoria, intituled An Act to make better 6&7 Vict. c.37. "Provision for the Spiritual Care of populous Parishes, the • Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England are empowered, in the Case of Parishes, Chapelries, and Districts of great Extent and 'containing a large Population, wherein or in Parts whereof the Provision for Public Worship and for Pastoral Superintendence ' is insufficient for the Spiritual Wants of the Inhabitants thereof, to constitute any Part or Parts thereof a separate District for 'Spiritual Purposes, such District not at the Time of constituting the same containing within its Limits any consecrated Church or Chapel: And whereas it is proper that further and better 'Provision should be made for the Cure of Souls within the said Parish, and it would tend greatly to promote the Spiritual 'Interests of the Inhabitants of the said Parish of Manchester if such Division thereof into separate Parishes for Spiritual Purposes were made as herein-after provided, and if the Parishioners were ultimately relieved from the Payment of all 'double and increased Fees and Duties, and if all Ecclesiastical • Dues, Fees, and Offerings arising in each such Parish were here. ' after payable to the Rector thereof, and if Provision were made for the Monies and Revenues arising in the said Parish, and 'payable or to become payable to the said Ecclesiastical Commis'sioners under the Authority aforesaid, or under the Authority of this Act, being applied for the Spiritual Benefit of the said Parish in the Manner herein mentioned, and if Provision were also made 'for certain of the Pews and Sittings in the Churches of such 'several Parishes being free for the Use of the Parishioners, subject 'to the Order and Disposal of the Ordinary; and it is also desirable ' that better Provision should be made for securing the Residence ' of the Rectors and Ministers of such Parishes and Districts, by 'the Erection of suitable Houses of Residence where the same are ' or shall be required, and that Powers should be given for varying 'the said Districts now existing or hereafter to be made within 'the said Parish, or under the Authority of this Act, and for 'annexing Parts of the said Parish of Manchester to adjoining 'Parishes, and Portions of adjoining Parishes to any of the pro'posed Parishes or Districts for Spiritual Purposes only, and for 'selling or exchanging any House or Houses of Residence unfit ' or unsuitable for Residence, or which shall not be situate within 'the Parish to which the same shall belong, and also for vesting 'the Patronage of certain of the Churches and Chapels aforesaid 'the Patronage whereof is not now exclusively vested in the said 'Dean and Canons in the Bishop of the Diocese: And whereas 'the Objects aforesaid cannot be effectually attained without the 'Authority of Parliament' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall A new District be lawful for Her Majesty's Commissioners for building new may be assigned to any Church Churches, by a Scheme or Schemes to be prepared by them, and or Chapel in for Her Majesty in Council, by an Order or Orders ratifying the Manchester by

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